Columbine, Virginia Tech, Beslan and other horrific events have illustrated the need for schools to have crisis planning
in place for dealing with potential or actual violence. Sometimes it's a threat from outside, and sometimes from inside,
or even a suicide. It could even be a toxic release.
This class is a minimum of three hours, and can also be scheduled as a four-hour. It includes a small segment on
the Beslan disaster and what it could mean in the United States.
The course content is less interactive than our usual courses, at least at this time, because many of the concepts will
be experienced by the participant as unfamiliar and new. The course content is also not for the faint of heart, and
participants should realize the emotional content of the course is heavy.
Nevertheless, here are some comments by a couple of the participants in a recent offering:
"From my point of view
it was very useful in that there is so much attention paid to exiting for emergencies that even the details of a lockdown
are sometimes sketchy. Ironically the only situation that we drill for that has actually happened is a lockdown. It
is the most likely to occur for us. .... We have been locked down more than once
though and everyone still seems to be lost. I can assure you that after what you gave me it will not be so. Your
presentation is great... I plan to use a version of your presentation to get my staff on board and take this serious.
.... We need to be prepared if something happens. So feel free to use my words if they are of value. ... Even
if they are prepared, this is a great tool to get others prepared."
" I've done another of
April's classes & enjoyed this one as well .... will definitely come back for another class next year."
"Thank you for your time.
I thought the seminar was wonderful. There were things I hadn't heard. Thank you, it was very helpful."
"I liked the seminar and wrote pages and pages of notes to incorporate in our plan."
